Quotes by Wally Lamb

A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But Ive undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.

When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you.

Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you dont want to do this yourself.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

“A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.”

“Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.”